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Drape a fan wrap skirt front Again, temporary lines on the dress form supply the shape to follow as you mold fan-shaped pleats in the wrapped skirt. Apply fAbric to thE form 3 inches Pivot point front straight-of-grain line over the form’s center-front tape. Align the hiplines. Pin the muslin through the intersection of the center front and the hipline tape. Superimpose the pencil-drawn muslin hipline over the dressform hipline, and place pins at the intersection of the side seams and the hipline. 1 ExtEnd your stylE linE On the dress form, mark a new waistline 11 ⁄4 Trim. inch below the origi- nal. Then mark the edge of the overlap and the location of the cluster of pleats (designated on the photo as point B). Only the right front overlapping panel of this skirt will be draped; it is placed over a straight skirt. Measure the lines on the form, and add them to a piece of muslin as described on p. 61. Smooth the right side. Overlap edge Position the muslin with its center 2 At the waistline, shift the muslin toward the left side of the dress form so the vertical straight of grain on the muslin is shifted 3 inches from the center-front line. Note: For more or deeper pleats, shift the muslin further. 4 hipline and the left side seam of the dress form. This causes the muslin hipline to shift up toward the waistline on the right side of the dress form and down toward the floor on the left side of the dress form. 3 On the right side, smooth the muslin over the dress form’s hipline. Smooth the muslin on the side seam near the waist, as shown at bottom left, and pin. Smooth the muslin toward the bottom of the dress form, and pin. At the waistline, an excess of muslin will appear; it represents the amount of the waist dart. 5 Trim and clip the muslin in the seam allowance at the left side of the waistline, shifting it toward the edge of the overlap. Shifted from the right of the dress form to the left, the muslin rests flat along the waistline tape. On the left of the dress form, the darts go into the folds of the pleats. Remove the pin at the intersection of the center front and the hipline (the muslin shifts toward the floor). 64 THREADS Remove the pin at the intersection of the